Big news in the debate over correlation vs. causation: Zach Rausch and I re-analyze a recent meta-analysis of experiments and find that reducing social media use for more than a week DOES improve mental health. Abstaining for a day causes withdrawal. afterbabel.com/p/the-case-for…

A Washington state home loan program promises to counter racial discrimination by limiting the ethnicities of those eligible for its services: komonews.com/news/local/was…

What in the world?

This seems like a serious thread! (really does look like an interesting paper… Wishing the author a good job market experience)

Why Republicans won’t fully embrace unions even as they seek more working-class voters Washington Post Opinions washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

New markups paper alert! 👇👇👇👇 How do markups vary over time along the supply chain? To address this question, I'm very excited to share a new working paper from the HBS Pricing Lab, joint with Santiago Alvarez Blaser, Alex MacKay, and Paolo Mengano: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨 CRITICAL FINDING An ongoing @manhattaninst analysis of an all payer, all claims insurance database shows that the 7-year diagnostic persistence rate of adolescent gender dysphoria is between 40-50%. I discuss this major finding in a new article for City Journal 🧵

DEI statements are a controversial part of academic hiring. But how prevalent are they and what regional differences exist? I found that about 25% of faculty job ads require one, and that there’s considerable regional differences in their prevalence. heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/the-great-de…

Fair, though from a quick Google a majority of deaths are actually *not* multiple vehicle crashes.

The “nonpartisan” Voter Participation Center was just caught filtering their voter registration ads so that they’re not shown to people who like NASCAR, Duck Dynasty, Ted Nugent, golf, etc. They’re intentionally not registering Republicans. freebeacon.com/elections/do-y…

Editor resigns as publisher blocks criticism of decision to retract paper on gender dysphoria Springer Nature has halted an accepted paper by Michael Bailey criticizing the publishing giant’s controversial retraction last year of an article that surveyed parents of children with gender

Hope this helps!

NEW: Duke University has released demographic information for its incoming class. In terms of race/ethnicity, there is very little change: *Percentages do not add up to 100% because students can select more than one option.

If NYC built 500,000 new housing units over the next decade, the city would be affordable for striving newcomers; foster entrepreneurship and economic vitality; and reverse the city's decline in cultural and political influence. What would it take to get there? Read Eric Kober

Here is something interesting: The drop in gun homicides nationally is also lining up with a decline in motor vehicle deaths - at least up through Feb. 2024.

The Real-Time Crime Index (Real-Time Crime Index) launches today with data from more than 300 agencies nationwide! The RTCI is designed to show national crime trends as they develop from as many agencies as possible with as little lag as possible. realtimecrimeindex.com

In an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, Yale suggested that it could not maintain its present level of diversity without racial preferences. So the numbers below are consistent with two possibilities: (1) Yale lied to the Supreme Court, or (2) Yale is violating the law.

The full quote is: "I don’t like that this is a fact of life." This is a really misleading headline and Tweet. AP should really change it.